Member of the International Advisory Committee of Élan Global Strategy
Becky Buell is an internationally recognised expert in transformational leadership, organisational development and systemic change. As a senior faculty member and trustee of the Presencing Institute, she has spent more than three decades supporting governments, United Nations agencies, foundations and civil-society organisations in strengthening collective leadership and leading lasting transformation.
In 2021, she launched the UN SDG Leadership Labs, an initiative that has supported more than twenty United Nations Country Teams in accelerating delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through approaches grounded in collaborative leadership and systems thinking.
Before that role, Becky co-founded and led Meteos, a pioneering consultancy specialising in multi-stakeholder dialogue and collaboration between public, private and philanthropic actors in sectors such as health, energy and finance. Earlier in her career, she held several leadership positions at Oxfam GB, notably in Central America and Mexico, where she worked extensively on social justice, human rights and development.
Becky holds a Master's in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. She is widely recognised for her expertise in strategic leadership, social innovation, systemic transformation, facilitation of complex dialogues and the development of adaptive leadership capacity in multicultural, multi-sector environments. Her work continues to shape global efforts to build more effective, more collaborative and resolutely forward-looking institutions.